'Gloomy' definitions:
Definition of 'gloomy'
From: WordNet
adjective
Depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky]
adjective
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]
adjective
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
Definition of 'Gloomy'
From: GCIDE
- Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. Gloomier; superl. Gloomiest.]
- 1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
- Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gloomy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acheronian,
- acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- acherontic,
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bleak,
- blue,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- caliginous,
- Cassandra-like,
- Cassandran,
- Cassandrian,
- castellatus,
- cheerless,
- Cimmerian,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cloud-flecked,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- crabbed,
- crestfallen,
- cumuliform,
- cumulous,
- cynical,
- dark,
- dark and gloomy,
- defeatist,
- dejected,
- depressant,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- dim,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disconsolate,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dispirited,
- dispiriting,
- distressed,
- doleful,
- doomful,
- dour,
- down,
- downbeat,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- drab,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dun,
- dusky,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- forlorn,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- gloomful,
- glooming,
- glum,
- grave,
- gray,
- grim,
- heavy,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- in the doldrums,
- inauspicious,
- inky,
- joyless,
- lenticularis,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- mammatus,
- melancholy,
- menacing,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- moody,
- morose,
- murky,
- muzzy,
- nebulous,
- negative,
- negativistic,
- nihilistic,
- nimbose,
- nubilous,
- obscure,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- oppressed,
- oppressive,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- pessimist,
- pessimistic,
- portending,
- portentous,
- sad,
- saturnine,
- shaded,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- sinister,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- sorrowful,
- squally,
- stormy,
- stratiform,
- stratous,
- Stygian,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- tenebrous,
- threatening,
- thunderheaded,
- triste,
- ugly,
- uncheerful,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- woebegone